Taapsee Pannu I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role. – Taapsee Pannu
Stephen Gostkowski There’s no time in the NFL, especially as a specialist, to pat yourself on the back. It’s a week-to-week, game-to-game, kick-to-kick kind of job. – Stephen Gostkowski
Stephen Fincher Pat Boone is an icon in this country. He’s not a guy who’s going to pull the wool over people’s eyes. He’s going to tell them the truth. – Stephen Fincher
Stella Young From time to time, people pat me on the head. It happens on public transport, in the supermarket, in bars. It’s a common enough occurrence that it very rarely takes me completely by surprise. – Stella Young
Stella Young It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it was in giving a pat on the back to journalists who maintained the status quo by giving readers the warm and fuzzies over their morning paper. – Stella Young
Skeet Ulrich I think I’m extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you’re getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that. – Skeet Ulrich
Seymour Hersh I joined the ‘Times’ in 1972, and I came with the mark of Cain on me because I was clearly against the war. But my editor, Abe Rosenthal, he hired me because he liked stories. He used to come to the Washington bureau and almost literally pat me on the head and say, ‘How is my little Commie today? What do you have for me?’ – Seymour Hersh
Sara Pascoe There’s social media where people’s politics are out there, they’re forwarding articles and seem engaged, but it’s only online. We tweet and pat ourselves on the back, thinking we have done something, said we’re interested, but it needs more work. – Sara Pascoe
Samantha Bond Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V. – Samantha Bond
Sam Kinison You don’t know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that’s nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That’s a tough crowd. – Sam Kinison
